Reasons for War

[Terrance]

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> 4. Liberate the Iraqi people. It is more than rhetoric; and in many ways, it
> is our duty -- after all, we helped build this monster. No, we didn't create
> him, and no, we weren't the main powers that aided him -- but we certainly
> failed miserably to do something in the past, during the Iraq/Iran War and
> during the Iraqi intifadah after the Gulf War. And yes, I am aware of the
> irony of killing some civilians to liberate them. But to use Noam Chomsky's
> reasoning against him, how many Iraqis will *not* perish over the next few
> years because Saddam's gone? The Devil's calculus, indeed.

Oh come now. We built a monster? We build them all, right? Ba'th was
built in Syria as an anti-Western  militant party celebrating violence
and absolutism. Saddam 's father died before he was born. Did we kill
his father and raise Saddam to be a violent nationalist assassin? Did we
recruit him into Ba'th? BA'th and oil built Saddam. He wasted a nation's
wealth and made its people suffer. This is what goes on all over the
world. Should we invade Brazil next if Lula fails to raise the standard
of living of the poor? The people of Iraq are just lucky this time. They
were unlucky under GHW Bush. 
Duty is for boy scouts.